August 10, 2011

Long time no talk! I am currently enjoying these final summer days before school starts and my brain has to function properly, as well as working on that teen gurlz site I've been babbling on about. When I finish working on something for it I don't really feel like spending more time on the computer so posting here will now be less frequent. This makes me sad because of my obsessiveness over recording everything and nostalgia and things, but I'm also really, really excited about the site, and I love working on it, and it feels natural to be spending more time on that now.

Offline, I have been doing things such as summer reading! You'll never believe this, but I found a way to transfer something on the Kindle into real life, like, being in my hands. Right now I am enjoying this 3D Kindle in particular:

I am a big advocate for decorating and writing in books and lending and giving them to people. This one had a nice letter from the person who gave it to me on the inside that I didn't find for months until I started reading it, which was quite a nice surprise, and I support stickers of any kind on anything. The last time Ella and I did the Ouija board I needed somewhere to write the answers, and I like having them on the inside of the back cover:

Isn't that the best weirdest thing ever?? I thought it would be cool to try to make an outfit of what Bobby or her ghost would wear. (And I got her permission too, I just didn't write it in the book because the answers are so pretty right now and it would add some kind of insincerity.) (As Ella reminds me, Bobby probably doesn't know what a blorg is, but I'm just gonna take her enthusiastic "YES" and run with it.) (And in twenty years when I commit some terrible crime, it will be noted by an Internet Expert [a real occupation in 2031] that I was always going on about a "ghost" named "Bobby" as a youngun, which should have acted as a sign of my emotional and mental instability.) (Then I will join a cult!) (And John Waters will want to be my friend.)

Anyway, it was hard to get all those facts about her into one outfit, so I did two. This one is about how much she loves Ella's garden (the flower crown), and her age and ghostliness (the creepy dress). The inspiration for my hair being wet was that I had no reason to shower before 7 PM that day. Why would anyone shower early in the day during the summer? Other than because they, you know, have lives and motivation and hygiene and stuff?

Petra made this crown and the flower girl dress is thrifted. I've been wanting to take some kind of creepy Shining picture with it in our school locker rooms for forever because there's this one hallway of stalls and mirrors that's really eerie, but during the changing time for gym I'm usually too busy trying not to inhale any air to set up a tripod.

Then for this one I was thinking (very deeply and intensely) about red as Bobby's favorite color, being a kid in Kentucky in the 30's, and that this lil punk stole a gun from her big brother to go hunting.

Thrifted shirt and boy scout shorts, crown gifted to me by Meadham Kirchhoff, and American Flag bead pin found in our basement.

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I think Ouija-interviews-as-outfits could be fun to do more often. These next coming months, as we revel in our fall witchiness, I think we will try the board in the woods for the first time. We probably got a little girl who likes a garden because we decorated the board with plastic daisies from my room, real flowers from Ella's garden, tiny jewels, and a pink plastic unicorn. Maybe next time we'll try all of my Twin Peaks memorabilia to actually get Bob.

The first look with the flower crown is so simultaneously creepy and hippietimes and culty. The second look is also SO GOOD. Also, your hair looks SO GOOD disheveled. Haha. The look with the Meadham Kirchoff crown is very punky and lying in a meadow smoking a cigarette with an angsty friend. Love it.

The book, a good read. Something similar in a completely different way (if that makes sense), Albert Camus' The Stranger.He is considered an existentialist and this is one of my favorite books. Ever, seriously, that's saying a lot.

Wow, you have grown up a lot since the last time I read your blog! I must say, you are growing into a fine, young lady. The Ouija board is a little freaky, maybe just because I had a terrible experience with it, but it's still interesting as hell!

Anyways, just letting people know I'm back. I posted an explanation for my absence and it would be greatly appreciated if I got some feedback. :)

"CASTLE, Robert, Jr.1939Robert Castle, Age 7, Killed By Brother, 12 Robert Castle, Jr., age 7, was shot and instantly killed Monday by his brother, Russell Castle, age 12. The brothers were out hunting when the gun was accidently discharged. A load of shot from a 12-guage shotgun entered the boy's right side, the shot ranging upward toward the heart. The brothers are sons of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Castle of Sitka, this county. The family, and especially the older brother, were almost prostrated over the accident. Paintsville Herald Thursday January 12, 1939"

Camus is great. Just covered The Stranger in my political philosophy course.

Tavi, while I'm generally a fan of you doing your own thing, as the child of two librarians I coil in horror at writing in books. I don't even highlight textbooks. It was considered "defacing" even you owned the book!

haha...about the ouija board, i've remembered my times in junior-hi (well...i'm an oldie), we always played that call-spirit-things and we named it 'guardian-angel-games' err...not board, but D.I.Y with paper and pen (as a pointer), and really shock that it really moves by itself (i played with the same rookie, must be succesful?), and feel horror afterwards. The disney-sticker things just something that i collected when i was in elementary (1993 era) and exchanged with friends (sticker album is a must)...just a good memories.

Love your pict. there Tavi, you really resemblence a nymph you know (well...i hate to define it as fairy, 'cause i'm a tinkerbell-hater). Love and really dig your blog too:D

I LOVE YOU TAVI !!!!!!!! What a great great great atmosphere and an original personality !! I love your style, I love your sensibility and what you show on this blog. It's a "goldmine" inpiration. <3Excuse my english so bad, because I'm french ! Hahahaha

Not only is Franny & Zooey a fantastic read, but included with a decorated letter? Sold. You look like a beautiful, ghostly garden nymph with the floral crown and a school girl with a vengeance in the other. Both decadent and lovely looks.

my friend audrey and i used her ouija board at her house and they keep theres stored inside an old t.v. (i have no idea why) there was a little boy named tim from new orleans, he "said" he watched movies with us at night, it was the coolest thing because we watched easy A and me and audrey were laughing and once we stopped we heard someone else laughing, not creepy or anything just like he had heard a really good joke......any way i love the flowers and everything.sorry this thing is so crazy long, i really love your blog

I need to start on my summer reading. Beautiful pictures. I've only used a ouija board once (since my mother won't let me buy one. She got angry when my brother and his friends made one out of a pizza box, which I think is the most awesome idea he's ever had.) and even then it didn't work. My friend said it only worked for her and her boyfriend. But I find them really cool anyway.

why do i miss your posts like this... but i really like your second outfit. if you were where I am you'd really like a place called junque cellar. so much of that flowy feel there. OH GOSH how I wish you were in Canada...

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Bonjour madamoiselle! Hi Tavi,I'm Ana (16 years old from Melbourne, Australia) and I thought I'd send ya a crazy fan email because I'm crazy. Well not really, it's just you know, I think that you've got a really similar way of thinking to me and I reckon you're cool. Aaaah this is going to make me sound like even more of a desperado/stalker fan but I can nevertheless shamelessly say WE LIKE ALL THE SAME FRICKEN THINGS. oh em gee it's just everything from cult classic movies to Daria, Nico (I can not believe you got to go to the Chelsea Hotel, so so envious right now), the 60's, self-conciousness/hyper awareness of what everyone thinks although on the other hand completely able to stop it from affecting us - I'm really pretty non-revolutionary but I defy everything inside my own head - I'm so rebel it's outrageous. Hmmm it's just a lot of things but anyway, you seem like you've got a lovely little brain there with lots of beautiful thoughts so *cliche* "Keep doin' what you're doin' sweetie!"

Love Ana... I'm reading some Chuck Palahniuk at the moment (guy who wrote Fight Club) and I really think that it's worth reading in terms of looking at everything.

I hate to ruin your fun, but the "spirit" contacting you is not the little girl it is pretending to be. It is an evil spirit, expecially since it is enticing you to use it more. You should get rid of it, especially for Ella's sake. She seems to be more vulnerable to it. Burn the board, or get rid of it. Please. I learned it the hard way.

I never get tired of your aesthetic, Tavi! ;) The flannel shirt/boy scout shorts combo is amazing. I just did a duality themed photo shoot that is somewhat similar, but not nearly as well photographed. ;)

Thank you, I will have to do some further investigation into this "Franny and Zooey" that you speak of! :-)

"I like having them on the inside of the back cover" - I blew this up Tavi, and had a good look. Not only is it so very interesting in terms of the conversation, but, it's just working so well as an object: with your writing that I've always liked [;-)], the stickers, the arrows, the crossing out etc. I think you should make a colour photocopy of it and put it in a frame.

And I really like the 2nd outfit photo - you just look very awesome, and if I had to describe why, then I'd describe everything. So if someone asked me why I liked the picture, I'd direct them back to the picture and say, "That's why!"

P.S Yay, John Waters! I could just sit for hours watching him being interviewed. As soon as he starts talking I can feel my mind wandering off to some really cool, and weird, and creative alternate universe...

I've read throug all the comments to see if anyone has complimented you on the red star on your temple.

As for your interest in the spirit world, one would think that teenage girls be vulnerable to all kinds of dangers - both in the material and any other possible realm :) One would want to protect them. But they need to experience the world, don't they? ;) Probably they need to learn the hard way and most certainly they are clever and tough. Lot's of love :)

Love the contrast in the first photos then the darkness in the ones after. I find both pretty eerie to be honest though and that comment about Robert Castle (i think that was the name) was just creepy. Nevertheless (haha love that word), great post.

Franny and Zooey is the only Salinger book I really truly liked. I could appreciate Catcher in the Rye, but I didn't really *like* it. Holden is a whiny little brat (I know it's the point, Salinger was all about exploring teenage angst, but I read Catcher after I had moved from New York to Arkansas and resented how he took city life completely for granted. /rant)

Wow i love franny and zooey, the book you found is so so cool. I love both those outfits but espically the one with the plaid and boy scout shots i really like those shorts. Btw i loved seeing you quoted in Spin about grunge fashion and nirvanas influence. I did a post about the 10th aniversery of Nevermind you so if you would like to check that out, feel free:) www.musicfashionandallthatjazz.blogspot.com

at first glance it seemed like you were chewing on a blade of grass in the first photo, which would be totally fitting. i almost expected to see some Cottingley fairies in the first two or the last pic ^___^but you don't look dirty enough to be from the Dust Bowl; maybe you shouldn't have showered ;)(yeah, i know Kentucky isnt exactly considered being part of it, but you just look like you stepped outta the set of Carnivale, so plz bear with me).and be glad you did not summon Bob, he would leave only on his own terms (which means murder). like a famous fictional conjurer wrote: "Doe not call up Any that you can not put downe."also, hurry up to befriend Waters; sadly he's no youngster anymore. having a slightly perverse imagination isnt an absolute necessity, i'm sure, but it might come in handy ;)oh, and did i mention that you are beautiful? ^____^

and giving your best to make sure that this mag-turned-website-project gets as well as in any way possible is quite comprehensible, btw.sorry for being so garrulous and utilizing this emoticon overkill ;)

The look with the Meadham Kirchoff crown is very punky and lying in a meadow smoking a cigarette with an angsty friend. I must say, you are growing into a fine, young lady. The Ouija board is a little freaky, maybe just because I had a terrible experience with it, but it's still interesting as hell! I love your style, I love your sensibility and what you show on this blog.Agence de mannequins Paris

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